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Leo XIV with the Crans-Montana families, Schneider and the anti motu proprio, the fashionable Augustinians, the Pope resumes good customs, the Madrid Convivium, And Cuba?, And Nicaragua?, between saying and doing, the PriestChat scam, the Kiev Cathedral.

January 16, 2026 | SPECOLA

It's Friday, the week is coming to an end, we're midway through January and we're still in a 2026 that has started very rough and promises to continue in the same vein. Letter from the Pope on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Repubb…

The ‘clipeus’ of Leo XIV, the holy doors ‘walled up’, Sunset Boulevard and Vatican II, Vatican diplomacy and the ‘extraction’ of Maduro, a Pope never reigns dead, Iran fed up with Islam?, “Slippery Alien Monster”, “The Disastrous Pontificate”.

January 15, 2026

Church publications against the church?, Pope Leo's trip to Angola, the consistory from the inside, interview with Czerny, Cipriani absent from the Vatican, United Nations in Gaza, the archbishop and the rabbi, the DJ priest, a view of the Becciu case, the colorful cardinal of Madrid, new churches for Rome.

January 14, 2026

Leo XIV: A Ratzingerian conservative?, Corina from Venezuela with the Pope, the temporal and fluid doctrine, Marx is not the Pope, Radcliffe with everyone?, the US bishops' secretary, «Delicta Graviora», the failed pontificate of Pope Francis.

January 13, 2026

Leo XIV baptizes in the Sistine, does unity attract?, end of the diplomacy of silence, traverse the Holy Shroud, Parolin and Europe, “Nuns against the Vatican”, the end of Nuremberg.

January 12, 2026

Leo XIV with the youth of Rome and the Jubilee volunteers, Franciscan Holy Year, the consistory ends in abuses, illegal in Spain, Vatican justice, Parolin and Maduro, Venezuela, an Anti-Trump Pope?, revolt in Persia, three years without Pell.

January 11, 2026

Leo XIV to the diplomatic corps, Vatican negotiations on Maduro, Pope's agenda 2026, trip to Spain, more on the consistory, public cuts to abortion.

January 10, 2026

Leo XIV: between perpetual synods and annual consistories, first reactions from the cardinals, 65 out of 245 absent?, the disheartened and disappointed, Christianophobia in Spain, does international law exist?, a dead Vatican with much life in the Church.

January 9, 2026

Catechesis on Vatican II, first day of the first consistory of Leo XIV, emanations from Timothy Radcliffe, Barron and synodality, synodality is a thing of Rousseau, Sarah and sacred music.

January 8, 2026

Is there life in our Church?, the first consistory of Leo XIV, Vatican and Venezuela, the illusion of international law, war of communion rails, unshackled Radcliffe, the popess Brambilla, friends of Pope Francis, More Lefebvrist bishops? epidemic of ‘epistemia’, democratic scams, the control of Havana, the leftists and the Catholics.

January 7, 2026

The Jubilee ends, the cautious Lion and the bishops of Venezuela, international law?, the Agostini case in the Vatican, eve of the consistory, A traditional prelature?, rainbow curias, collectivism, the liturgy of Benedict XVI, civil churches, the intermediate pontificate.

January 6, 2026